We are merely pieces of a grander design, even more insignificant than I imagined. When the earth ceases to be, all those stars will shine on. Our deaths will mean nothing to them.

Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It's one bloody fray after another.

I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.

We remember the past, live in the present, and write the future.

Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long dead and buried deep.

We're not words, Henry, we're people.Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.

That's the problem with memories: you can visit them, but you can't live in them.

Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.

I was diamond on the outside, and I would not break.Inside, though, I was already broken.

Knowing leads to caring.

Don't get so focused on where you're going that you forget the people you're travelling with. There's no point reaching a destination if you arrive alone.

Embrace compassion without exception.

They didn't need the words, if they were willing to be silent long enough to learn to speak without them.

I said I *liked* being half-educated

The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not existand the one who exists I do not see.

How can you build credibility without grandstanding as you strive to stand apart from the crowd?

The more I help out, the more successful I become. But I measure success in what it has done for the people around me. That is the real accolade.

Female athletes are supposed to be toned down. You're always supposed to talk about the team and never stand out.

When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.

Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.

The very fact that we have access to God's attention and presence should concentrate the thoughts and elevate the heart.